The state of disrepair is so great it would cost somewhere between 400 million and a billion dollars to restore the ship to something like a tourist attraction. The cost would be hard to justify.

Sight falling off on first shot? How could that happen to a trained gunsmith? How could that happen to someone not a trained gunsmith? In any case, you obviously didn't need it anyway.

Seems like wisdom to me.

May 27 (UPI) -- Retailer Walmart will pay a $16,000 fine for shipping realistic toy guns to New York buyers in violation of state law, state Attorney General Letitia James announced on Tuesday. New York law bans retailers from selling or shipping toy guns that are black, dark blue, silver or alumin...

Try it with Kentucky sour mash whiskey.

So I got the brass brushes today. You can get one from Home Depot for about what I got a collection of brushes off of Amazon which came from China. And since Trump is talking a little more intelligently about China trade last time I looked, maybe we will continue to get stuff from China relatively c...

Now that's the professional way. It involves more materials and construction effort than I am willing to take on. With what I'm working with I am having to stick to the non professional way.

I'm in possession of a Ruger pistol, for safe keeping purposes at the moment, that a recently deceased close relative had owned. I was looking it over and discovered it didn't want to work. It's a pistol that looks like is today bringing in the $700 range in good condition and not a Saturday Night s...

I acquired a rifle recently that had been badly stored in a place not climate controlled. Humidity and lack of maintenance produced rust. Looking at solutions for rust removal one finds a couple of favorite solutions. One requires 0000 steel wool and various oil products. The idea of the 0000 is tha...

I could see that it was a commercial venture after the war sometime. Kind of a war fanatic Franklin Mint thing. Wonder if those bands that proport to be slices from a gun tube are "real" or just "look" like a replica slice if a gun barrel could be sliced up? The polished chrome l...